Terraponics

I wasn't sure where to post this, so here I am.

Terraponics is, supposedly, some type of cross between aquaponics and soil gardening.  I've just recently heard of it.  A couple sources on this are LA Crop Swap, and The Urban Hillbilly.  City Prepping did a youtube on LA Crop Swap that was good.  

I have plenty of land for gardening, but I wonder about the advantages of a system like this for city dwellers.  I do have some questions....like adding nutrients?  what is the make up of the soil biology?  I like to stick close to nature rather than thinking I know what nutrients to feed plants or soil.  But to a degree, most of us add nutrients in some form....compost, biochar, compost tea.

What advantages or disadvantages do you see?

Here's the youtube (I don't know how to embed them.) from Urban Hillbilly:  

And this one from City Prepping:  

Hey, I just found your post after watching the two videos you linked. I am not sure if terraponics is a rebranding of other techniques or a truly new way to do things. On one hand seems a complicated wicking bed (pipes, pumps, filters?). On the other one seems an ebb and flow hydroponics (note that people have been growing soil plugs in clay pebbles for ages). I still don't know where the nutrients come from, soil or added with the water?
I don't see any advantage over a wicking bed system, besides potentially reducing the weight of the whole contraption. But if you are going to have pipes and pumps, you can do a wicking system with small reservoirs.

To me, hydroponic is a cleaner operation.  Adding soil seems messy.

I assume the folks promoting terraponic believe their product taste better.

Either way usually a greenhouse or growing tunnel is usually involved.

Compost tea can provide nutrients for either system.